Country Quotes

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

I am so happy to see more and more people in this country are becoming addicted to cheese.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.

A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is threatening their very families.

America is a miracle country.

Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.

My first occupation was to map the country.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.

[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.

Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.

To be an ally is a formal military alliance. And we have a formal military alliance in NATO. But we are partners with other countries all across the world. And they're - they will be a partner.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

Gujarat is the first state in the country where not even a single student is devoid of insurance cover.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.

From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country, but what they can't take, what they can't live with is when their government is not square with them.

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to.